Been brainstorming a plan B recently and wondered what is involved in setting up a portal similar to CUK and all the other 'forums' I use that seem to have been built using the same building blocks. Can anyone point me at a shopping list of hardware/software/skills/hosting/likely costs to do similar for my Plan B please?
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What do I need to set up a CUK like portal?
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Any of the following CMS Drupal (php) / Joomla (php) / DotNetNuke (.NET)
To get basic portal on any of these minimal skill is required (basic configuration abilities/ maybe little bit of code altering) and lots of mods/designs out there for free, if you want to highly customise skill required goes up proportionally
There are commercial (paid for) alternatives, but to be honest never found any that are value for money when you compare features against the free ones
Either of the following forum software: phpbb (free) / vbulletin (paid for). Also most of the CMS have their own forum software
Hosting cost's, pretty much get what you paid for, if not a large amount of traffic can get for £5 to £20 a month, if talking large amounts of traffic costs go up considerably
Btw, portals are done to death, make sure no one is successfully covering the area you want to do (and if not why not) before starting -
If you really want it to reflect CUK you will also you need a couple 1000 numpties with nothing to do but post on it during work time'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!Comment
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Originally posted by Not So Wise View PostAny of the following CMS Drupal (php) / Joomla (php) / DotNetNuke (.NET)
To get basic portal on any of these minimal skill is required (basic configuration abilities/ maybe little bit of code altering) and lots of mods/designs out there for free, if you want to highly customise skill required goes up proportionally
There are commercial (paid for) alternatives, but to be honest never found any that are value for money when you compare features against the free ones
Either of the following forum software: phpbb (free) / vbulletin (paid for). Also most of the CMS have their own forum software
Hosting cost's, pretty much get what you paid for, if not a large amount of traffic can get for £5 to £20 a month, if talking large amounts of traffic costs go up considerably
Btw, portals are done to death, make sure no one is successfully covering the area you want to do (and if not why not) before startingComment
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostIf you really want it to reflect CUK you will also you need a couple 1000 numpties with nothing to do but post on it during work timeConfusion is a natural state of beingComment
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostIf you really want it to reflect CUK you will also you need a couple 1000 numpties with nothing to do but post on it during work time
I don't know what the CUK business model is, I always assumed it was funded by the advertising banners I see about the place. Presumably the advertisers think the 'numpties' as you call them are a good target audience?Comment
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I'm available for a transfer fee of £40,000,000 ... no agents will be involved in this one tho' ;-)Comment
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Oh well. May as well bung in an advert for a mate.
When I put www.chutneyspoon.co.uk up, the hosting company provides a shedload of scripts and databases. Amongst those is a few choices for forum software.
Cobbling together a forum looked intimidating because of the number of menu options, but in this case (phpBB) actually turned out to be trivial.
www.chutneyspoon.co.uk/forum
I suspect plenty of hosting companies throw in such scripts and tools. And for those that don't you can install your own. But certainly for HostPost, it has intentionally been made sufficiently easy for non-IT people to be able to do it.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostOh well. May as well bung in an advert for a mate.
When I put www.chutneyspoon.co.uk up, the hosting company provides a shedload of scripts and databases. Amongst those is a few choices for forum software.
Cobbling together a forum looked intimidating because of the number of menu options, but in this case (phpBB) actually turned out to be trivial.
www.chutneyspoon.co.uk/forum
I suspect plenty of hosting companies throw in such scripts and tools. And for those that don't you can install your own. But certainly for HostPost, it has intentionally been made sufficiently easy for non-IT people to be able to do it.Comment
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Originally posted by singhr View PostBeen brainstorming a plan B recently and wondered what is involved in setting up a portal similar to CUK and all the other 'forums' I use that seem to have been built using the same building blocks. Can anyone point me at a shopping list of hardware/software/skills/hosting/likely costs to do similar for my Plan B please?Comment
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